Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture
by Davis, Edward L.Pub. Date: 2004-12-01
Publisher(s): Taylor & Francis
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Summary
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture is the first reference book to digest this vast cultural output and make it accessible to the English-speaking world.
Table of Contents
| contemporary culture in Macao | |
| contemporary culture in Singapore | |
| Hong Kong, contemporary culture in | |
| Taiwan, contemporary culture in | |
| agriculture | |
| ancestral/lineage shrines | |
| architects | |
| architectural journals | |
| bridges (new) | |
| Buddhist monasteries and temples (Chinese) | |
| Buddhist monasteries and temples (Tibetan) | |
| cemeteries | |
| churches | |
| cities | |
| community temples (urban and rural) | |
| cultural landscapes | |
| cultural zones (urban) | |
| danwei (work units) | |
| Daoist temples (guan) | |
| department stores | |
| development zones (urban) | |
| domestic space | |
| foreign enclaves (urban) | |
| geography of disease | |
| geography of health care | |
| government architecture | |
| highways (gaosu gonglu) | |
| hospitals | |
| hotels | |
| hukou residential permits | |
| Internet cafes | |
| libraries | |
| migration and settlement patterns | |
| monuments | |
| mosques | |
| museums | |
| parks | |
| Pei, I.M. | |
| playgrounds | |
| population (growth and distribution) | |
| prisons | |
| Public Security Bureau | |
| Renmin guangchang, Shanghai | |
| residential districts (urban) | |
| restaurants | |
| restoration districts (urban) | |
| retail and business districts (urban) | |
| ring roads | |
| shopping malls | |
| skyscrapers | |
| squares | |
| streets | |
| theme parks | |
| Three Gorges Project, cultural impact of Tian'an men, Beijing | |
| tombs | |
| towns and townships | |
| train stations | |
| underground dwellings | |
| urban districts | |
| urban planning/renewal | |
| urban settlement patterns | |
| urban transportation patterns | |
| vernacular architecture | |
| village gates | |
| villages | |
| World Heritage Sites | |
| 211 project | |
| academies (Shuyuan: Zhongguo wenhua shuyuan | |
| Yuehu shuyuan | |
| Baihudong shuyuan | |
| Taiwan E-e-hu shuyuan | |
| etc.) | |
| Adult Education Institute (Chengren jiaoyu xueyuan) | |
| Beijing University | |
| Central Academy of Fine Arts (Zhongyang meishu xueyuan) | |
| Central Nationalities Institute (Zhongyang minzu xueyuan) | |
| China People's University (Zhongguo renmin daxue) | |
| Chinese Academy of Sciences (Zhongguo kexue yuan) | |
| Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Zhongguo shehui kexue yuan) | |
| Chinese University of Hong Kong | |
| Chinese University of Science and Technology (Zhongguo keji daxue) | |
| college campus culture | |
| college entrance examinations | |
| Educational system: HK | |
| educational system: PRC | |
| educational system: Singapore | |
| educational system: Taiwan | |
| foreign students | |
| Fudan University | |
| higher education | |
| Hong Kong University | |
| hope project | |
| HSK | |
| intellectuals (and academics) | |
| literacy (and illiteracy) | |
| Lu Xun Literary Academy | |
| memorization | |
| metropolitan private schools | |
| Ministry of Education | |
| Ministry of Education | |
| Nanjing University | |
| Nankai University | |
| National Defense University (Guofang daxue) | |
| national educational standards | |
| Open University (dianshi daxue) and self-paced study and testing | |
| Overseas Chinese University | |
| physical education | |
| Qinghua University | |
| shetuan | |
| student movements | |
| student suicide | |
| studying abroad | |
| Taiwan National University | |
| teaching (training and style) | |
| textbooks publishers | |
| The Children's Palace (shaonian-gong) | |
| TOEFL (tofu) and GRE | |
| Tsing-hua University, Taiwan | |
| university BBS | |
| village schools | |
| Zhongshan University (Guangzhou) | |
| army style (including PLA and Red Guard clothing) | |
| beauty magazines | |
| Beijing's silk-ally (xiushui jie) | |
| braids | |
| campaign-poster designers | |
| Chan, Amy (designer) | |
| Chang, Carole [Yu-ping] (b. 1969, Taiwan) | |
| Chen Xiang (designer) (b. 1969, mainland) | |
| cheongsam (qipao) | |
| chignon | |
| Chinese fashion for foreigners | |
| chukou zuan nei xiao (export reject items) | |
| clothing companies | |
| cosmetic surgery | |
| designer brands/labels (Japanese and Western) | |
| Dou, Stephane [Teng-huang] (b. 1969, Taiwan) | |
| ethnic costumes | |
| fashion shows | |
| graphic design | |
| Guo Pei (designer) (b. 1967, mainland) | |
| hair (salons and changing styles) | |
| Han Feng designer (b. 1962, Nanjing/New York) | |
| He Yong | |
| Hu Ya-chuan (b. 1965, Taiwan) | |
| Hung, Sophie (Taiwan) | |
| industrial design | |
| interior design | |
| Kitterick Company, Ltd | |
| Lau, Peter | |
| Leung, Charmaine (designer) | |
| Li, Ruby (designer) | |
| Mao and Sun Yatsen suits | |
| models and modelling | |
| Shanghai tang (and mainland rip-offs) | |
| silk industry | |
| Sui, Anna (designer) | |
| Sun Jian (designer) (b. 1967, mainland) | |
| Tam, Vivienne (designer) (HK/NY) | |
| Tang, William (designer) (b. 1959, HK) | |
| Tangzhuang (Tang-style clothing) | |
| Teng, Yeohlee (designer) | |
| textile factories and sweatshops | |
| Wan, Pacino (designer) (b. 1964, HK) | |
| Western fashion for Chinese | |
| Yang Bingbing, designer (Beijing) | |
| actors | |
| animation | |
| Beijing Bastards ("Beijing Za Zhong", Zhang Yuan, dir., 1993) | |
| Beijing Film Academy (Beijing dianying xueyuan) | |
| Beijing Film Studio | |
| censorship | |
| Chan, Jackie (Chen Long: HK actor/director) | |
| Chen Kaige (director) (b. 1952, Beijing) | |
| Chen, Joan (Chen Chong, b. 1961, Shanghai | |
| actress/director) | |
| Cheng Jihua (b. 1921) (critic, historian, director, actor) | |
| Cheung, Leslie (Zhang Guorong, b. 1956, actor, pop singer) | |
| Cheung, Maggie (Zhang Manyu, b. 1964, HK actor) | |
| children's feature films | |
| China Children's Film Studio (est. 1981) | |
| China Film Art Research Center/China Film Archive | |
| Chinese Film Association (NGO) | |
| Chow, Stephen | |
| Dai Jinhua (critic) | |
| distribution | |
| documentary filmmaking | |
| Duan Jinchuan (independent video documentarist) | |
| End of Year Celebration Movies (Hesuipian) | |
| Feng Xiaogang (director) | |
| Fifth Generation of directors | |
| film criticism (and journals) | |
| foreign co-productions | |
| funding | |
| Ge You (film and TV actor) | |
| Gong Li (actor) (b. 1966, Shenyang) | |
| He Jianjun (director) | |
| He Ping (director, b. 1957, Beijing) | |
| He Qun (5th Gen. dir., b. 1956, Beijing) | |
| Hou Hsiao-hsien (director) (b. 1947, Guangdong/ Taiwan) | |
| Hu Mei (b.1956, Beijing | |
| 5th Gen. female dir.) | |
| Huang Jianxin (director, b. 1954, Xian) | |
| Huang Shuqin (female director | |
| b. 1940, Guangdong) | |
| Huang tudi (Yellow earth) | |
| Huey, Victor (New York-based director, video-documentarist) | |
| I Graduated (dir. Shi Jian and Chen Jue, 1992) | |
| In the Heat of the Sun | |
| independent (duli) films (closet 'chouti' or underground 'dixia' films) | |
| Jia Zhangke ('The Platform', 2000) | |
| Jian Wei | |
| Jiang Wen (actor, director, screenwriter | |
| b. 1963, Beijing) | |
| Jiang Yue (documentarist) | |
| Kwan, Stanley (Guan Jinpeng) (HK director) | |
| Law, Clara (Luo Zhuoyao, b. 1957, Macao) (HK female director) | |
| Lee, Ang (Li An, b. 1954, Taibei) | |
| Li Hong (female video documentarist) | |
| Li Shaobai | |
| Li Shaohong (5th Gen. female director) | |
| Li Yimingi (critic, pro-6th Gen.) | |
| Liu Miaomiao (b. 1962, Ningxia | |
| Hui) (5th Gen. female director) | |
| Liu Xiaoqing (b. 1951, Sichuan) (actress) | |
| Lou Ye (director) | |
| Lu Xuechang ('The Making of Steel', 1995, 'A Lingering Face', 2000) | |
| Ma Xiaoqing (actress) | |
| martial arts films | |
| music videos | |
| New Documentary Movement | |
| Ning Ying (female director) | |
| Pan Hong (b. 1954, Shanghai) (actress) | |
| Parties A+B | |
| Peng Xiaolian (5th Gen. female dir.) | |
| Samsara (dir. Huang Jianxin) | |
| Shanghai Film Studio | |
| Shen Songshen (film educator) | |
| Sixth Generation of directors | |
| Sun Zhou | |
| The Operators (dir. Mi Jiashan, 1988) | |
| Tian Zhuangzhuang (b. 1952, Beijing) (director) | |
| Tiananmen Square (dirs. Shi Jian and Chen Yue, 1991) | |
| Tsai Ming-liang (director | |
| b. 1958, Malaysia/ Taiwan) | |
| Wang Quan'an (director of Lunar Eclipse) | |
| Wang Tong (director, Taiwan) | |
| Wang Xiaoshuai (director) | |
| Wang Xiaoyan (b. 1959, Beijing/US) | |
| Wong Kar-Wai (Wang Jiawei, b. 1958) | |
| Wu Ming (dir.) | |
| Wu Nien-chen (screenwriter/dir., b. 1952, Taiwan) | |
| Wu Tianming (head of Xi'an Film Studio) | |
| Wu Wenguang (b. 1956, Yunnan) | |
| Xia Gang (b. 1953, Beijing) | |
| Xi'an Film Studio | |
| Xie Fei (b. 1942, Yanan) | |
| Xie Jin | |
| Yang, Edward (Yang Dechang) | |
| Yeoh, Michelle (b. 1962, Malaysia) | |
| Yim Ho | |
| Youth Experimental Film Group (Qingnian shiyan dianying xiaozu) | |
| Zhang Jianya (b. 1951, Shanghai) | |
| Zhang Nuanxin | |
| Zhang Yang (director) | |
| Zhang Yimou (b. 1950, Xian) | |
| Zhang Yimou (early movies) | |
| Zhang Yuan (b. 1963, Nanjing) | |
| Zhang Ziyi | |
| Zhao Wei | |
| Zhou Xiaowen (b. 1954, Beijing) (director) | |
| canteen culture | |
| chefs | |
| Chinese crepes (pancakes) | |
| chopsticks | |
| cookery and cutlery | |
| cultural etiquette | |
| dim sum | |
| dried-food specialities | |
| dumplings | |
| ethnic food (e.g. Muslim, Korean) | |
| fastfood (Chinese: traditional and Western clones) | |
| fastfood (Western: McDonalds, Kentucky, Pizza Hut, etc.) | |
| fresh-food markets | |
| hard liquor | |
| home cooking (jia chang cai) | |
| huoguo (hotpot, including Shuangyangrou) | |
| instant food | |
| lunch boxes (fan he'r | |
| biandang in Taiwan) | |
| Mao restaurants | |
| maotai | |
| medical foods | |
| menus | |
| new cookbooks/recipes | |
| new cuisine | |
| noodles (including Shoulamian, etc.) | |
| Peking Duck | |
| pickled vegetables | |
| pidan (century eggs) | |
| regional cuisines | |
| restaurants | |
| Shaoxing wine | |
| supermarkets | |
| tea houses/gardens | |
| Wuliang ye | |
| Ye xiao markets | |
| yexiao (night markets) | |
| acupuncture | |
| aphrodesiacs | |
| barefoot doctors | |
| contraception | |
| culture-bound syndromes | |
| doctors | |
| ethnic medicine (esp. Tibetan and Uighur) | |
| handicaps and disabilities | |
| herbal medicine and macrobiotics | |
| HIV, Aids, and STDs | |
| medical insurance/coverage | |
| mental illness (e.g. psychology and psychiatry, faith-healing) | |
| morning exercises (zaocao), including taiji, disco, etc. | |
| moxabustion | |
| organ donation and transplantation | |
| pharmacies (e.g. Chinese and Western) | |
| physical fitness and sport-clubs | |
| public health care | |
| qigong | |
| reproductive health | |
| weight (including fat kids) | |
| Western-style manufacture of Chinese medicine (Zhongyao Xizhi) | |
| accents (and shifting fashions) | |
| Austronesian language speakers (Gaoshan) | |
| Baihua/Guoyu (semi-colloquial language) | |
| Beijing Yuyan Wenhua Daxue | |
| Cantonese | |
| classical Chinese | |
| computer input for Chinese | |
| cultural code words and phrases of the 1980s and 1990s | |
| curses and maledicta (e.g. ta made, wangba dan, hun dan, etc.) | |
| dialects (Shanghainese, Cantonese, Hokkien, Hakka, etc.) | |
| dictionaries (recent) | |
| double entendres (shuangguan yu) | |
| foreign language acquisition and teaching | |
| foreign words | |
| Guojia Yuyan Wenzi Gongzuo Weiyuanhui [Guojia Yuwei] | |
| Hokkien | |
| Indo-European language speakers (Tajiks, Russians, etc.) | |
| language and gender | |
| language fever (yuyan re) | |
| language policies | |
| neologisms | |
| onomatopoeia | |
| political slogans | |
| Putonghua (standard Mandarin Chinese) | |
| romanization (Pinyin, Wade-Giles, Maryknoll for Taiwanese, etc.) | |
| simplified characters | |
| Sino-Tibetan language speakers | |
| teaching Chinese to foreigners (duiwai Hanyu jiaoxue) | |
| terms of address (including honorifics) | |
| translation industry | |
| Tungusic language speakers | |
| Turkic language speakers | |
| urban slang (e.g. Beijing street-language) | |
| writing reform movements | |
| writing system (e.g. characters) | |
| xinhua cidian (word dictionary) | |
| A. Cheng | |
| A. Lai (ethnic Tibetan novelist and essayist) | |
| avant-garde fiction (xianfeng xiaoshuo) | |
| Ba Jin (Suixianglu) | |
| Bai Hua (Kuni) | |
| Bai Xianyoni (Taiwan) | |
| baogao wenxue (reportage literature) | |
| Bei Dao (Zhao Zhenkai, b. 1949) | |
| Beijing Foreign Language Press | |
| Bo Yang | |
| bookstores | |
| Can Xue | |
| cartoons/comix (Man Hua/Xiaoren shu) | |
| Chen Pingyuan (critic) | |
| Chen Ran (b. 1962, Beijing) | |
| Chen Rong | |
| Chen Ruoxi (Taiwan) | |
| Chen Zhongshi (Baihuyuan) | |
| Chi Li | |
| Chi Zijian | |
| children's literature | |
| comics/serial picture books (lianhuanhua) | |
| commercial literature | |
| critics | |
| Dai Houying | |
| Duo Duo (b. 1951 | |
| poet) | |
| English-language dailies, periodicals and books [China Daily, Beijing Review, Beijing Monthly, Shanghai Star, etc. | |
| Panda Books | |
| booklets, etc] | |
| Fang Fang | |
| Feng Jicai (writer and critic) | |
| Foreign Language Press (Beijing) | |
| Gao Xingjian (b. 1941) | |
| Gao Xingjian (playwright/critic) | |
| Ge Fei (Liu Yong) (b. 1964, Jiangsu) | |
| Gu Cheng | |
| Guo Luosheng | |
| Haizi (post-Mao poet) | |
| Han Shaogong (spokesperson for roots school) | |
| He Dun | |
| He, Jiang | |
| Hong Ying (Ji'e de nüer) | |
| Huang Chun-ming | |
| Huang Xiang (Huoshen jiaoxiangyue) | |
| Ji Xianlin (Niupeng zayi) | |
| Jia Pingwa (b. 1953) | |
| Jiang He | |
| Jin Yong (HK-based novelist) | |
| jishi wenxue (journalistic literature) | |
| Ke Yunlu (novelist) | |
| Kong Jiesheng (novelist/critic) | |
| Li Bai | |
| Li Jie (critic) | |
| Li Qingxi (writer/critic) | |
| Li Rui | |
| Li Tuo (critic) | |
| Li Yongpingi (modernist writer) | |
| Lin Bay | |
| literary awards (Maodun wenxuejiang, Lu Xun wenxuejiang, etc.) | |
| literary journals | |
| literature in dialect | |
| Liu Dong | |
| Liu Heng (b. 1954) | |
| Liu Suola (b. 1955, Beijing/London/NY) | |
| Liu Xinwu (novelist/critic) | |
| Liu Yichang | |
| Long Yingtai (Taiwan) | |
| Lu Xinhua | |
| Ma Lihua (poet, essayist, and scholar of Tibetan culture and literature) | |
| Ma Yuan | |
| Malqinhu (Mongolian writer) | |
| May Fourth Literary Reform | |
| Mei Shaojing | |
| Meinü wenxue (Mian Mian, Zhou Weihui, etc.) | |
| Menglong poetry | |
| Mian Mian (France) | |
| Mo Yan (b. 1956) | |
| Museum of Modern Chinese Literature (Beijing) | |
| Nie Hualing | |
| Ouyang Zi (Taiwan) | |
| periodicals | |
| poetry | |
| publishing | |
| Qian Liqun (critic) | |
| Qian Zhongshu (critic) | |
| Qiong Yao (novelist | |
| Taiwan) | |
| Qiu Huadong | |
| reprints (publishing revivals of older literature and impact on literary style in 1980s and 1990s) rupture writers ("Duanlie" writers of 1998-2000) | |
| rupture writers ('Duanlie' writers of 1998-2000) | |
| San Mao (Taiwan) | |
| scar literature | |
| Shi Tiesheng | |
| Shu Ting | |
| Su Tong (b. 1963) | |
| Sun Ganlu | |
| Taxi Dawa (Tibetan writer) | |
| Third Generation (poets): 'extremists' and 'not-not | |
| (Sichuan) groups | |
| Tie Ning | |
| Wang Anyi (b. 1954) | |
| Wang Hui (critic) | |
| Wang Meng | |
| Wang Shuo (b. 1958, Nanjing/Beijing) | |
| Wang Wenxing (Taiwan), modernist writer | |
| Wang Xiaoming (critic) | |
| Wang Zengqi | |
| Wang Zhenhe | |
| web literature | |
| wuxia xiaoshuo | |
| Xi Chuan (post-Mao poet) | |
| Xi Xi (HK female writer) | |
| Xinmin Wanbao | |
| Xu Kun (b. 1965, Shenyang/Beijing) | |
| Xu Xing | |
| Xungen pai (root-searching school of writing) | |
| Ya Si (HK poet) | |
| Yang Jiang | |
| Yang Lian (b. 1955 poet) | |
| Yu Hua (b. 1960, Jiangsu) | |
| Yu Jian (poet) | |
| Yuan Hongbing | |
| Zhang Chengzhi | |
| Zhang Jie | |
| Zhang Kangkang (b. 1950) | |
| Zhang Wei (Gucheng, Jiuyue yuyan, etc.) | |
| Zhang Xianliang | |
| Zhang Xinxin (b. 1953) | |
| Zheng Yi | |
| Zhentan xiaoshuo (Detective Fiction) | |
| Zhong Xiaoyang (HK/Taiwan female writer) | |
| Zhongguo zuojia xiehui (Chinese Writers' Association) | |
| Zhou Li Fochler (writer) | |
| Zhou Lunyou ("not-not poet" and critic) | |
| Zhu Tianwen (female, Taiwan) | |
| Zunun Kadir (writer, Xinjiang) | |
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